20 December 2012
Nuttx is a real-time embedded operating system (RTOS). It has a small footprint that is usable in micro-controller environments. It is fully scalable from tiny (8-bit) to moderate embedded (32-bit) systems. It also aims to be fully compliant to standards, to be fully real time, and to be totally open.
Release Notes: This release adds several new core OS features including address environments (aka "Processes"), support for a PATH variable, and a native Windows build. In addition, platform support support is now available for the the ZiLOG z180 (via the P112), STM32 F100 high density boards, and additional ARM board support. Several additional features and important bugfixes are included.
NXWidgets is a graphical user interface package for the NuttX RTOS. It integrates seamlessly with the NuttX NX graphics subsystem in order to provide graphic objects, or "widgets". It is written entirely in C++ using only selected "embedded friendly" C++ constructs which are fully supported under NuttX. No additional C++ support libraries are required. It is tailored for use with MCUs in embedded applications. It is ideally suited for the mid-to-upper range of most MCU families. It will work on high-end frame buffer devices as well as on LCDs connected via serial or parallel ports to a small MCU. It will accept position and selection inputs from a mouse or a touchscreen. It will also support character input from a keyboard such as a USB keyboard. It supports a special widget called CKeypad which provides keyboard input via an on-screen keypad which can be operated via a mouse or touchscreen inputs. Some of the graphic objects supported by NXWidgets include labels, buttons, text boxes, button arrays, check boxes, cycle buttons, images, sliders, scrollable list boxes, and progress bars.
Release Notes: This release includes enhancements and optimizations from product-related developments. This includes such things as options to eliminate the minimize buttons and background images. A new CNumericEdit widget is included, as well as a revised and improved Timer object. Several additional features are included, plus some important bugfixes.
Blue Mind is a messaging and collaboration platform. It offers scalable shared messaging, calendars and contacts with advanced mobility (iPhone, iPad, Android, etc.), and Outlook and Thunderbird connectivity support. Designed with simplicity as a goal, it uses Web 2.0 technologies with a Javascrit UI, offline Web capability, and a Web-services-oriented pluggable architecture.
Release Notes: Many performance improvement were made on Calendar autocomplete, on mobile email search, and on the core architecture. A nasty Firefox crash caused by rounducbe on email sending has been fixed. Fixes were made on ICS import and VCard import from Webmail. A sync range of one year has been set to allow very big calendars in browser storage.
GLB is a user-space TCP load balancer similar to Pen. It lacks most advanced Pen features, as the aim was to make a user-space TCP proxy that is as fast as possible. It can utilize multiple CPU cores. A list of destinations can be adjusted in runtime. Destination "draining" is supported. It supports "least connected", "round-robin", "random", and "source tracking" balancing policies.
Release Notes: This release fixes division by 0 from the 0.9.0 beta. The main highlight is the introduction of libglb.so, which can add balancing capability to any Linux application by overloading the libc connect() call in runtime, providing direct connections from client to server. No application recompilation or relinking is needed. This release adds a "round-robin" balancing policy.
quIRC is a lightweight console-mode IRC client. It uses terminal escape sequences to provide a clean character-cell based interface, handling things like multiple channels and servers (using tabs), input line editing (with bash-like keystrokes), and backscroll.
Release Notes: This is primarily a bugfix release. UTF-8 glitches in the input bar have been fixed, and cursors and backspace now handle UTF-8 correctly. A double-free crash (Bug #18) has been fixed. Some documentation has been updated. The Makefile has been partially cleaned up.
Novius OS is a CMS that takes up the challenge of managing Web content in today’s multi-channel environment. Its goal is to provide users with one single tool for their digital communication: Web sites, social networks, mobile applications, email, and custom business applications. It is based on the FuelPHP framework. It uses an HTML5 interface, the jQuery UI framework, and the Wijmo and TinyMCE plugins.
Release Notes: Five bugfixes in the core and two in the blognews application.
Dosage is an application that keeps a local "mirror" of specific Web comics, with a variety of options for naming schemes and updating options. It supports a recursive "catch-up" method, where it traverses a comic by essentially visiting previous comics and picking out the comics. An ever growing number of Web comics are available to satisfy your addiction.
Release Notes: This release is compatible with Python requests module versions 1.x. Several comics have been updated.
pf-kernel is a fork of the Linux kernel. It provides useful features which are not merged into the mainline, including the BFS CPU scheduler, the BFQ I/O scheduler, and TuxOnIce.
Release Notes: The kernel has been updated to v3.7.1.
EJDB is an embedded JSON database engine. It aims to be a fast MongoDB-like library which can be embedded into C/C++ applications. It features collection-level write locking, collection level transactions, string token matching queries, and a Node.js binding.
Release Notes: In this release you can use multiple matching conditions for a single query field. It adds "$addToSet" (add value to the array only if its not in the array already) and "$pull"(removes all occurrences of value from array) atomic operations. There are an initial version of a command line console for EJDB databases. All database API methods are blocking without callbacks.
fpgatools is a toolchain for programming flexible programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The only supported chip at this time is the xc6slx9, a cheap (circa $10 U.S.) but powerful 45nm-generation chip with about 2400 LUTs, block ram, and multiply-accumulate devices. The principles of fpgatools are to reach the maximum physical performance of the chip, to provide fast development cycles, to be an independent toolchain which only depends on other Free Software, and to be a lightweight C implementation without a GUI.
Release Notes: Second design verified: blinking_led is a clocked design where the clock increments a counter and the highest bit of the counter drives a LED.
The OpenGamma Platform is a unified system for front-office and risk calculations for financial services firms. It combines data management, a declarative calculation engine, and analytics in a single comprehensive solution.
Release Notes: This release includes a completely rebuilt Web GUI, analytics library improvements, new data management features, updates to the Excel Integration Module, and an improved installation/build process.
4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (by using it as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for example, for playing video DVDs), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (meaning console games).
Release Notes: This is an updated version of 4MLinux 4.1 Media Edition, using 4MLinux 5.0 as a core system. It has a wide set of applications for playing (MPlayer SVN-r35233-4.7.0, xine 1.2.2, TiMidity++ 2.14.0, MikMod 3.2.2), recording (Audacity 2.0.2, SoX 14.4.0), and ripping media (cdrkit 1.1.11, MEncoder SVN-r35233-4.7.0, FFmpeg Git-2012.10.26). Xpdf 3.0.3 and XPaint 2.9.9 are also included.
OCILIB is a cross-platform Oracle Driver that delivers very fast and reliable access to Oracle databases. It offers a rich, full featured, and easy-to-use API. Written in ISO C on top of OCI, OCILIB runs on all Oracle platforms.
Release Notes: Fixes broken support for Oracle Database Change notifications.
Aspose.Diagram is a class library for working with MS Visio files. It is a pure .NET alternative for MS Visio Object Model. It enables developers to work with VSD and VDX files on ASP.NET Web applications, Web services, and desktop applications. It makes use of the advanced functionality of Visio's services to manipulate Visio documents on a server. A developer can open files and manipulate the elements of the diagram, from lines and fills to more complex elements, and then export to native Visio formats or XML.
Release Notes: This release allows setting the page title during Microsoft Visio diagram to HTML export. The Aspose.Diagram for .NET API provides the HTMLSaveOptions.Title property, which allows you to set the page title. There are some bugfixes, and export to HTML has been improved.During VSD to HTML conversion, ArgumentOutOfRangeException occurs and s cross browser compatibility issue is resolved.
TEA is a powerful and easy-to-use Qt4-based editor with many useful features for HTML, Docbook, and LaTeX editing. It features a small footprint, a tabbed layout engine, support for multiple encodings, code snippets, templates, customizable hotkeys, an "open at cursor" function for HTML files and images, miscellaneous HTML tools, preview in external browser, string manipulation functions, Morse-code tools, bookmarks, syntax highlighting, and more.
Release Notes: This release fixes a crash and another bug related to the Keyboard settings page. An HTML5 template in Functions has been added.
phpMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. It can create, rename, and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data, and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
Release Notes: This release fixes inline query editing, which was broken after a row update.
CERTivity is a powerful multi-platform visual tool for creating, managing, and handling different key store types (such as JKS, JCEKS, PKCS12, the Bouncy Castle types BKS and UBER, and Windows Native), public, private and secret keys in different formats (PKCS, OpenSSL, RSA/DSA, etc.), certificates (version 1 and 3), and certificates chains. It allows you to import and export keys, key pairs and certificates, manage certificate extensions, extend the validity period for self-signed certificates, test certificates, obtain revocation status, convert from one key store type to another, and much more.
Release Notes: This version added the ability to discover all of the Java CA Truststores on the current system. It can sign and verify signatures on "APK" (Android Application Package) files and can retrieve SSL certificates simply by pasting a HTTPS URL.
OrbitClock is a dramatic countdown visualizer that will help you celebrate any special moment in time, such as the beginning of a new year, a birthday, or an anniversary. Display this fascinating ballet of planetary physics on a big screen to add an unforgettable twist to your special countdown party.
Release Notes: This special edition highlights the end of the Mayan b'ak'tun, the calendar event that has raised so much suspicion. In this release, the date displays in the Mayan long count format, and the planets line up at the beginning of the new b'ak'tun (i.e. midnight at the end of Dec. 20, 2012). Perfect for your apocalypse party!
Galette (Gestionnaire d'Adhérents en Ligne Extrêmement Tarabiscoté mais Tellement Efficace) is a membership management Web application designed for non-profit organizations. A detailled presentation is also available. It allows board members to know which fees will soon reach their due dates. Moreover, each member can review and update his personal information.
Release Notes: Performances issues impacting the members management page, public members list, contribution creation and editing, transaction creation and editing, and group management were fixed.
Bugzero is a Web-based change management and issue tracking system used in a distributed team environment to track software bugs, hardware defects, test cases, or any other issues. It can also be used equally well as a helpdesk customer support, trouble ticketing, or email management system to collect and manage customer feedbacks, incidents, requests, and issues. It is easy to use, but still flexible and adaptive, and can be configured to fit to your organization's unique business process and workflow.
Release Notes: A problem with non-ASCII usernames was fixed. Setting URIEncoding to UTF-8 is no longer required. A potential AWT-Windows memory leak problem and an IE caching issue in AJAX requests were fixed. The default option for drop down fields is now better handled on the server side.
fio is an I/O tool meant to be used both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for 13 different types of I/O engines (sync, mmap, libaio, posixaio, SG v3, splice, null, network, syslet, guasi, solarisaio, and more), I/O priorities (for newer Linux kernels), rate I/O, forked or threaded jobs, and much more. It can work on block devices as well as files. fio accepts job descriptions in a simple-to-understand text format. Several example job files are included. fio displays all sorts of I/O performance information, including complete IO latencies and percentiles. Fio is in wide use in many places, for both benchmarking, QA, and verification purposes. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OS X, OpenSolaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Windows.
Release Notes: Android platform support was added. Memory consumption on Windows when using many files was reduced. Support for non-uniform random IO was added, using pareto/zipf distributions. A faster LFSR random generator was provided. Various fixes and improvements were made in the network engine. Ping-pong network IO is now supported. The default clock was sped up, and accuracy of the CPU clock was improved. A potential bi-modal performance issue on Linux with multiple processes and O_DIRECT was fixed. A timekeeping race bug with threads was fixed. NUMA job and memory control options were added. A bug in the CPU load engine was fixed. There were various other fixes and improvements.
Red language is a native-code compiled functional, imperative, symbolic, and homoiconic programming language that re-uses most of REBOL's syntax and semantics. Both static and JIT compilation support are planned. A strong emphasis is made on concurrency and both task and data parallelism support using an actor-like abstraction and parallel collections (Scala-like). The target range of usage spreads from low-level system programming (thanks to the built-in Red/System C-level DSL) and embedded systems, up to high-level scripting, with an optional REPL console.
Release Notes: This new version adds support for functions, many new datatypes (function!, paren!, path!, lit-path!, get-path!, set-path!), and many new native functions like FIND and SELECT. The path support addition enables refinements for both native and user functions. The environment loaded by the boot script has been extended with dozens of new mezzanine functions (like PROBE, LAST, FIRST, SECOND, etc.). The Quick-Test framework has now been ported to Red and around 1800 new unit tests were added.
Tk-Yupana emulates the Yupana, an ancient calculating device of the Incas.
Release Notes: Theories about the Incan Abacus were divided into two categories: Positional System and Sign-value System. The Sign-value System Yupana by Cinzia Florio and her multiplication algorithm were implemented. Some improvements were made to images and style.
Piwigo is photo gallery system for the Web. The project started in 2002 and is built by an active community of users and developers. It comes with powerful features for publishing and managing your photos, scalability, and smart browsing capabilities such as albums, tags, or calendars. Extensions make Piwigo even more customizable.
Release Notes: In this stable release, several bugs were fixed along with a minor security issue related to JavaScript injection in EXIF/IPTC photo metadata. Six languages were updated, and a Lithuanian translation was added.
BallroomDJ is a ballroom music player. It is designed to let the computer choose the music and to be able to play music the entire evening without intervention. The choice of music is based on the choice and weighting of different dances by the user and the use of various rules to choose which dance to play next. The rules are: avoid repetition of the dance, avoid sequences of dances of similar types, avoid sequences of dances of similar speeds, and avoid sequences of dances from the same family of dance.
Release Notes: This release fixed an uninitialized variable that prevented the rebuild database function from starting.